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Deborah Westbrook
2023 - Present
2028
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Deborah Westbrook is a judge for Department 1 of the Nevada Court of Appeals. She assumed office on January 2, 2023. Her current term ends on December 31, 2028.
Westbrook ran for election for the Department 1 judge of the Nevada Court of Appeals. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Westbrook completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: Nevada intermediate appellate court elections, 2022
General election
General election for Nevada Court of Appeals Department 1
Deborah Westbrook defeated Rhonda Forsberg in the general election for Nevada Court of Appeals Department 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Deborah Westbrook (Nonpartisan)  | 51.4 | 459,818 |
| Rhonda Forsberg (Nonpartisan) | 24.9 | 222,586 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 23.7 | 211,499 | ||
| Total votes: 893,903 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
The primary election was canceled. Rhonda Forsberg and Deborah Westbrook advanced from the primary for Nevada Court of Appeals Department 1.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Deborah Westbrook completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Westbrook's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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For the past nine years, I have served our community as an appellate attorney at the Clark County Public Defender’s Office, representing individuals who cannot afford lawyers in their criminal appeals. In 2021, I was named Defender of the Year by the Nevada Attorneys for Criminal Justice, and I was recognized as a top appellate lawyer by Vegas Inc. in both 2021 and 2022.
Before joining the Public Defender’s Office, I spent the better part of a decade as a civil litigator at a major labor and employment law firm in Las Vegas, where I worked on several civil appeals. I developed a love of appellate law when I clerked for Judge Eric T. Washington on the D.C. Court of Appeals.
I am Secretary of the state bar’s Appellate Litigation Section, and I edit a monthly column on appellate law. I am also a member of the Supreme Court’s Commission on Nevada Rules of Appellate Procedure.- I have a strong work ethic, a love of legal research and writing, and a keen sense of justice and community service. These attributes, along with my background and experience as a writer and appellate lawyer, will serve me well when I am elected to the bench.
- The proper role of a judge is to interpret and apply the laws as they are written, and not legislate from the bench. I will never prejudge the issues that come before me, and I will never “work backwards” to achieve a predetermined result.
- I have broad support from the community, including law enforcement, first responders, labor unions, businesses, Democrats, and Republicans.
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See also
2022 Elections
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Candidate Nevada Court of Appeals Department 1 |
Officeholder Nevada Court of Appeals Department 1 |
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